iPhone 6 Plus vs. LG G3

The iPhone 6 Plus is Apple's biggest smartphone by far, but it has quite a few rivals on the Android side of the fence. Let's compare the features and specs of the iPhone 6 Plus with one of the top phablets of 2014, the LG G3.

Size

Considering that screen sizes are both the same, this is quite the discrepancy in overall size. The iPhone 6 Plus is 8 percent longer and 4 percent wider than the G3.

The iPhone 6 Plus is smaller in one respect: it's 20 percent thinner than LG's flagship.

Weight

Build

Colors

With the iPhone 6 Plus, we're looking at the same three color options that Apple offered with the iPhone 5s.

The G3 is sold in five color options, but black and white are the primary flagship colors – and the ones you're most likely to see in your local store.

Display (size)

No difference here, as both phones have 5.5-in displays with 16:9 aspect ratios.

Display (resolution)

The iPhone 6 Plus has the sharpest display we've seen in any iPhone, but the G3 still wins this round. Its Quad HD display may be bordering on overkill, but my eyes do still appreciate those insanely dense pixels.

Fingerprint sensor

Battery

Apple hasn't officially listed the battery capacity of the iPhone 6 Plus, but iFixit's teardown revealed a 2,915 mAh battery. Apple is also advertising longer uptimes than we saw in the iPhone 5s.

Battery life was solid enough in the G3, but apparently pushing those 3.6+ million pixels requires some juice, as its battery life fell short of amazing.

One-handed mode

Both Apple and LG added some software that helps to use these huge screens with one hand.

With the iPhone, a double-tap of the home button slides the entire screen down to the bottom – where you can easily reach top-level targets with one hand.

With the G3, you can toggle a setting that makes its keyboards slide over to one side of the screen or the other.

Split-screen multitasking

Apple has yet to add a multi-window multitasking mode to the iPhone, but the G3 tackles this with its Dual Window setting. The only downside is that it only works with a handful of select apps.

Camera (megapixels)

The G3's cameras have higher resolution, but that's only part of the story. You can hit up our G3 review for our full camera impressions. Stay tuned for our iPhone 6 Plus review.

Camera (aperture)

The iPhone has a slightly wider aperture, with its ƒ/2.2 rear camera.

Laser focus

The G3's camera has laser-based autofocusing. On the user end, you simply tap the point on the display where the subject is, and it will quickly snap a pic with it in focus.

OIS

Both phones' cameras also have Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) onboard.

Physical buttons

The G3's back-facing buttons take a little getting used to. But the positive side is that the device has a clean look, with completely buttonless edges.

Storage

The iPhone gives you three (more spacious) storage options.

MicroSD slot

The G3 does, however, have a microSD card onboard to help augment that internal storage.

Processor

We'll need to put our iPhone 6 Plus review unit through the paces before having much to say about its A8 processor. But Apple's history suggests that it will far outperform what you'd gather from its cores and clock speed.

RAM

The new iPhone sticks with 1 GB of RAM, while the G3 has either 2 GB or 3 GB (depending on which storage configuration you choose).